Pleurothallis alainii Dod 1978 SUBGENUS Antilla Luer 2000
TYPE Drawing by © Dod
Common Name Alain's Pleurothallis [Alain H Liogier Cocollector of species]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in the Dominican Republic as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with short ramicauls enveloped by scarious ocher colored sheaths and carrying a single, apical, rigid, succulent like, ovate-obtuse, sulcate above, carinate beneath, granulate surfaec, erose margin, tridentate apically , sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on a thin, arising through a basal, scarious spathe, .4 to 1" [1 to 2.5 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with brownish, apically dilated, bracts.
"Unique in its plant form in Hispanola with its very tiny size, the thick, succulent-like leaves and the erect inflorescence that holds the solitary flower above the plant and do not open well. Almost all become capsules." Dod 1978
Synonyms Acianthera alainii (Dod) A.Doucette 2016; Antilla alainii (Dod) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Moscosoa 3: 56 Dod 1978drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis Acainthera, Stelis, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Antilla alainii;
Phytotaxa 275: 270 Doucette 2016 as Acianthera alainii;
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